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10 Dec 2016 3:10:37am

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'And it would be good to avoid the anti-Semitism which is so marked a feature of many ignorant references to the Jewish Scriptures. How do we explain the Jews, if the Jewish God is so awful?'

Ah, so to criticise YAHWEH and/or the Old Testament is to become anti-Semitic, is that it? That's pretty low, Reverend.

If the Scripture is there to see and read, then how exactly can one refer to it and also be ignorant of it?

A good deal of weight is placed, in more thoughtful ecclesiastical circles, upon the subtlety of scripture, and interpretation and understanding, and the gift of the Holy Spirit to comprehend. This is all slight of hand, and an effort to elevate Theology to the same level as real schools of study. In fact, the bible explicitly instructs readers to avoid accepting any 'layers of interpretation and meaning' or similar, because the authors knew that this leads inevitably to schism and heresy.

You can't have your (mana)cake and eat it, Rev. Jensen.

Your glib transition from 'atheists can't prove there's not a God and there probably is one' to 'Jesus must be the son of God' is fairly adept as these things go, but still doesn't pass any reasonable assessment. Sorry.